Blog 7: Foreshadowing

    In chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, readers get a brief look into Jordan Baker and Daisy Fay's teenage years. Not only within these next few pages is there foreshadowing, but also irony and shock. We learn of Jordan's relationship with Daisy: one where sixteen year old Jordan looks up to older beautiful Daisy, who seemingly is the coolest young woman around. Mr. Jay Gatsby is introduced as Daisy's first love. Ironic that Gatsby, who readers have been following the entire novel, and Daisy too, knew each other and actually had a relationship in their younger years. " 'His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didnt lay eyes on him again for over four years--even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realze it was the same man,' "(Fitzgerald,75). Thus far, it has been assumed that the two were not connected at all with each other. And Jordan Baker happens to be longtime acquaintances with Daisy, who was with Gatsby, and now Nick is told of the inter affiliation of them all. I was shocked! It really is a small world after all. So thats what Jordan Baker and Gatsby discussed at the party: Jordan's connection to Daisy, who knew Nick, who could set Gatsby and Daisy hooked up again. Nick truly is the center of it all, the middle man. This meeting foreshadows the eventual reunion of Gatsby and Daisy over tea, just as the story of their childhood and love foreshadows their future possible rekindling of that love.